Thursday 23 August 2007
Long live USSR
From Kutaisi we hit the ‘road’ to northern Racha (120 km of potholed road took 7 driving hours). The road ended high in the mountains few kilometres from the Russian North Ossetia border in the dilapidated and very undesirable Soviet sanatorium (retreat), whose most important feature is a rare decaying silver statue of a seated Stalin. The sanatorium further offered a ping-pong table but unfortunately half of the ball was missing. You have already heard of the miserable breakfast served by never smiling canteen ladies.
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This place seems like the kind of institution I read about in a Tintin comic book. The head of the institution said: "People that come here are not always mentally sick, but after a few weeks of treatment they are". That would hold especially true if they serve that kind of breakfast you told us about below.
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